The Blueprint for the Future of Work

Speakers

We’re bringing together some of the top minds in our industry and those from many others, all of whom bring amazing insights on the future of work.

Featured Speakers

Aaron Levie

Box CEO, Co-founder and Chairman

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and co-founder, Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the product and platform strategy of Box, focusing on incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads Box in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He also serves as a member on the Box board of directors.

Aaron Levie

Box CEO, Co-founder and Chairman

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Director, Hayden Planetarium/BoxWorks 2017 Closing Keynote

Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia.

Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way.

In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security.

In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy, dubbed the Moon, Mars, and Beyond commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Council, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget.

For five seasons, beginning in the fall of 2006, Tyson appeared as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA's spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe.

During the summer of 2009 Tyson identified a stable of professional standup comedians to assist his effort in bringing science to commercial radio with the NSF-funded pilot program StarTalk. Now also a popular Podcast, and a limited-run Television Series on the National Geographic Channel, StarTalk combines celebrity guests with informative yet playful banter. The target audience is all those people who never thought they would, or could, like science.

In its first year on Television it was nominated for a "Best Informational Programming" Emmy.

Tyson is the recipient of twenty honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid 13123 Tyson. On the lighter side, Tyson was voted Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive by People Magazine in 2000.

Tyson's latest book, released in May 2017 is Astrophysics for People In A Hurry. This adorably readable book is an introduction to all that you've read, and heard about that's making news in the universe -- consummated, in one place, succinctly presented, for people in a hurry.

Recently Tyson served as Executive Editor and on camera Host & Narrator for Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, the 21st century continuation of Carl Sagan's landmark television series. The show began in March 2014 and ran thirteen episodes in Primetime on the FOX network, and appeared in 181 countries in 45 languages around the world on the National Geographic Channels. Cosmos, which is also available in DVD and BluRay , won four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Critics Choice awards, as well as a dozen other industry recognitions.

Tyson is the fifth head of the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose Directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Director, Hayden Planetarium/BoxWorks 2017 Closing Keynote

Dr. Jill Biden

Co-Founder of the Biden Foundation/Box Women's Summit Keynote Speaker

Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is a mother and grandmother, a lifelong educator, a proud military mom, and an active member of her community. With the February 2017 launch of the Biden Foundation, Jill Biden and her husband will continue their commitment to strengthening the middle class, protecting women and children against violence, and supporting community colleges and military families.

Dr. Jill Biden

Co-Founder of the Biden Foundation/Box Women's Summit Keynote Speaker

Valerie Jarrett

Former Senior Advisor to President Obama/Box Women's Summit Fireside Chat

Valerie B. Jarrett was the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired theWhite House Council on Women and Girls.

Ms. Jarrett has worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns tore form our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.

Ms. Jarrett has a background in both the public and private sectors. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company in Chicago, Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board,Commissioner of Planning and Development, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. She also served as the director of numerous corporate and not-for-profit boards including Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chairman of theUniversity of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Director of the Federal ReserveBank of Chicago. Ms. Jarrett has also received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.”

Jarrett received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.

Valerie Jarrett

Former Senior Advisor to President Obama/Box Women's Summit Fireside Chat

Jeffrey Immelt

Chairman and CEO, GE/CIOWorks Keynote Speaker

Jeff Immelt is the 9th Chairman of GE, a position he has held since September 7th, 2001. He served as CEO for 16 years, transforming GE into a simpler, stronger, and more focused digital industrial company. Immelt revamped the company’s strategy, global footprint, workforce and culture, positioning GE for the future. During his tenure, industrial earnings doubled and GE returned $143B in dividends, more than in the cumulative history of the company.

Immelt was willing to disrupt GE reshaping the company’s portfolio during the last decade, with bold moves such as the $260 billion sale of GE Capital assets, the acquisition of platforms in Life Sciences and Renewables, adding global energy leader Alstom, the combination of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes, and the divestitures of legacy businesses like GE Appliances, NBC Universal and Plastics. He was the architect of the GE Store, leveraging GE’s unique scale to drive growth. Under his leadership, GE re-established market leadership with technological innovation, grew a strong share position in essential industries, and built a backlog of $320 billion.

Immelt led several innovative transformations during his tenure. GE is the pre-eminent global company with more than 60% of its revenue coming from outside the U.S. Under his leadership, emerging market revenue quadrupled. GE became the first Digital Industrial building a strong digital platform in GE, establishing leadership in the Industrial Internet. GE is well positioned to lead the next revolution in productivity through additive manufacturing. GE has been a leader in important growth themes, like clean energy, through its ecomagination initiative. GE remains one of the top 10 most valuable brands in the world, and has consistently been viewed as the best company for developing leaders.

Immelt held several global leadership positions since joining GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare businesses. In 1989, he became an Officer of the company and, in 2000, was appointed Chief Executive Officer.

He has been named one of the "World's Best CEOs" three times by Barron's. Since he began serving as CEO, GE has been named "America's Most Admired Company" by Fortune magazine and one of "The World's Most Respected Companies" in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times. He has received fifteen honorary degrees and numerous awards for business leadership.

Under the Obama administration, he chaired the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.

Prior to leading the Cloud and Enterprise Group, Guthrie helped lead Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud platform. Since joining the company in 1997, he has made critical contributions to many of Microsoft’s key cloud, server and development technologies and was one of the original founders of the .NET project. Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.

Scott Guthrie

Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group

Brian Chesky

Brian is the CEO and head of Community at Airbnb. He drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth as it provides interesting and unique ways for people to travel, as well as representing the interests of the millions of Airbnb hosts around the World. Under Brian’s leadership, Airbnb stands at the forefront of the sharing economy, and has expanded to over 3 million+ listings in more than 191 countries, as well as expanding into other areas of travel with Airbnb Trips. Brian met co-founder Joe Gebbia at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design.

Brian Chesky

Cheryl McKinnon

Cheryl McKinnon is a principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals; she helps them support their firm's need for customer-driven technology capabilities in the age of the customer. Cheryl delivers research and advisory services in areas including enterprise content management (ECM), content archiving, enterprise file-sync and share, document-centric collaboration, life-cycle management, information governance, and eDiscovery.

Before joining Forrester, Cheryl ran an independent consulting firm, serving both private- and public-sector clients. Cheryl has served as vice president of marketing for industry association AIIM, was chief marketing officer of Nuxeo, and held senior management roles with OpenText and Hummingbird.

Cheryl frequently presents at events such as conferences, seminars, and webinars. She is a longtime member of AIIM and ARMA, and has served on their association conference and standards committees. Cheryl has been a guest contributor to a variety of industry publications and has been quoted in TechCrunch, FierceContentManagement, KMWorld, CMSWire, among others.

Cheryl has a bachelor's degree from the University of Winnipeg, an MA in history from Carleton University, and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in history at the University of Ottawa, though she remains (regrettably) "ABD."

Cheryl McKinnon

Kevin Scott

CTO, Microsoft

Kevin Scott is chief technology officer for Microsoft. He joined LinkedIn (which Microsoft acquired in December 2016) in February of 2011. As senior vice president of engineering and operations and a member of LinkedIn’s executive management team, Scott helped build LinkedIn’s technology and technology team and led it through an IPO and six years of rapid growth.

Scott’s 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as researcher, engineer and leader. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google, including the integration of Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob. Prior to its acquisition by Google, Scott was responsible for engineering and operations at AdMob, the world’s leading platform for mobile monetization.

Kevin Scott

CTO, Microsoft

David Kenny

Senior Vice President, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform

David Kenny is senior vice president, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, spearheading the Watson technology platform development, as well as optimizing IBM’s public cloud for data and cognitive workloads.

David was most recently General Manager, IBM Watson, responsible for the Watson platform, its global ecosystem of business partners and developers, and emerging solutions. Prior to joining IBM, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Weather Company (Weather), where he oversaw the company’s portfolio of consumer and business-to-business weather brands and businesses including The Weather Channel, weather.com, wunderground.com and WSI. David was previously president of Akamai, the leading cloud platform designed to help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences to mobile and fixed Internet users.

Previously, he served as managing partner of VivaKi, the combined worldwide media and digital arm of Publicis Groupe, and he was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Digitas Inc., atop global integrated brand agency.

David currently serves on the Board of Directors of Best Buy. He is also a director of Teach for America, a nonprofit that enlists recent graduates to teach and to effect change in under-resourced and low-income communities. David received an MBA from the Harvard School of Business, and a bachelor's degree from the GM Institute (now Kettering University).

David Kenny

Senior Vice President, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform

Eric Ries

Author, The Startup Way

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which has sold over one million copies and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, which has become a global movement in business, practiced by individuals and companies around the world. This methodology was the inspiration behind his founding of the LTSE and his books The Leader's Guide and The Startup Way.

He has founded a number of startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and he has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies, including GE, with whom he partnered to create the FastWorks program. Eric has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, IDEO, and Pivotal, and he is the founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange.

He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.

Eric Ries

Author, The Startup Way

Glen de Vries

President and Co-Founder, Medidata Solutions

Glen is the President and Co-Founder of Medidata Solutions, the leading cloud platform for life sciences research. Glen has been driving Medidata's mission since the company’s inception in 1999: Powering smarter treatments and healthier people. His publications have appeared in Applied Clinical Trials, Cancer, The Journal of Urology, Molecular Diagnostics, STAT, Urologic Clinics of North America and TechCrunch. He is a member of the Carnegie Mellon University President’s Global Advisory Council, a Columbia HITLAB Fellow, a member of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association European Advisory Board, and serves on the board of the Young Scientist Foundation.

Glen received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and genetics from Carnegie Mellon University, worked as a research scientist at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and studied computer science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematics.

Glen de Vries

President and Co-Founder, Medidata Solutions

Sean Ryan

Facebook

Sean Ryan has been with Facebook since 2011 and currently leads the Business Platform Partnerships team. This group includes the partnership teams for the Marketplace, Workplace, Payments, and Gaming verticals. He also previously led the Audience Network publisher team and managed the Facebook developer relations teams.

Prior to FB, Ryan was EVP/GM, Games at News Corp and worked previously as a consultant in digital goods and social media monetization, as well as Global CEO of Russian social news platform Live Journal. In his start-up days, he co-founded virtual world Meez, the TwoFish payments platform (sold to Emergent) and the online karaoke company SingShot (sold to Electronic Arts). Ryan earlier served as VP of Music at RealNetworks after selling Listen.com/Rhapsody to Real, and worked for online gaming firm SegaSoft Networks. Prior to business school, Ryan worked in Finance for The Gap helping launch the Old Navy concept, and was a credit analyst for Chemical Bank.

Ryan holds an MBA from UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management and a BA from Columbia University.

Sean Ryan

Facebook

Jeetu Patel

Chief Product Officer

Jeetu Patel is Chief Product Officer. He leads the Box Platform organization, driving the strategy of platform business and developer relations. He also oversees corporate strategy and development organization for Box. Before joining Box, he was General Manager and Chief Executive of EMC’s Syncplicity business unit. Prior to EMC, Jeetu was president of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm focused on collaboration and content management across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing and life sciences.

Jeetu holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois Chicago.

Jeetu Patel

Chief Product Officer

Speakers

Monica Adractas

Workplace by Facebook

Workplace by Facebook is a communication platform that enables organizations to get work done better. Monica was on the founding team for Workplace, building out the Americas regions, and now leads customer relationship and growth efforts globally. Monica is passionate about enabling business transformation through technology.

Monica joined Facebook from Box, where she was Vice President, Customer Success for enterprise, SMB, and small team customers. Monica helped lead Box through IPO, pioneering programs for industry-leading growth and retention.

Prior to Box, Monica was an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco, serving enterprise clients on growth strategy across sectors. Monica has also launched new businesses at Starbucks, worked on four continents, and spent time in venture capital. Monica serves as an advisor for Thanx, a SaaS loyalty platform, and is an angel investor.

Monica holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS from Wharton.

Monica Adractas

Workplace by Facebook

Dennis Amorosano

Canon Information & Imaging Solutions

Dennis Amorosano is currently Sr. Vice President & General Manager, Canon Information & Imaging Solutions (CIIS), having joined Canon in 1994; playing a key role in bringing the industry’s first networked digital multifunction system to market. In addition to his current role in senior leadership at CIIS, during his over 20 years at Canon, Mr. Amorosano has held several positions across Canon’s Business Imaging Solutions Group business units including leading product marketing for imageRUNNER, imagePRESS, Image Capture and software solutions. In addition, Mr. Amorosano has led Canon’s National Account organization, Solutions Business Development Division and was responsible for the establishment of Canon’s current Vertical and Alliance Marketing operations. In his current capacity, Mr. Amorosano leads CIIS’s Solutions Business Center with direct responsibility for driving CIIS practice area expansion, solution and services revenue and customer delivery.

Mr. Amorosano is a frequent contributor to publications following the office equipment industry along with mainstream media, offering insight on industry trends, and the role of technology with respect to workflow and information management. Mr. Amorosano is also a frequent speaker at industry events.

Mr. Amorosano is a graduate of Siena College with a degree in Finance.

Dennis Amorosano

Canon Information & Imaging Solutions

Dan Ault

Town of Cary

Dan Ault joined the Town of Cary as Assistant Town Manager and Chief Innovation Officer in December 2016. In this role, he serves as the key architect and strategist for Town Manager Stegall's vision of creating a more adaptive and resilient organization. Ault's focus on organizational development, communication, and technology are redefining the way Town employees engage and collaborate with the public and each other. Prior to working for the Town, Ault spearheaded the City of Elgin’s 311 initiative. While at Elgin, Ault developed the City’s mobile app in-house and implemented cloud applications across 21 departments and divisions. He also initiated Elgin’s smart city, cloud-first strategy, which brought innovative private-sector business applications to the public sector.

Ault graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2008 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration. In 2010, he received his Master of Public Administration Degree from Northern Illinois University.

Dan Ault

Town of Cary

David Baker

RevUnit

David is the VP of Product at RevUnit. He works closely with designers and technologists to hone service offerings while coaching cross-functional teams on digital strategy and product development best practices. On the side he runs a brand consultancy and produces music. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending every moment with his wife and two little boys.

David Baker

RevUnit

Claudio Belloli

Claudio Belloli joined the FedRAMP team in 2014 as the Program Manager for Cybersecurity. In his role, Claudio oversees all of the cloud service providers (CSPs) going to the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) for provisional authorizations. He manages the PMO’s security team and serves as the primary liaison to the JAB CIO’s Technical Representatives and their review teams. Claudio is responsible for ensuring authorization packages meet the rigorous reviews set forward by the JAB and that vendors with JAB provisional authorizations continue to maintain their authorizations through FedRAMP’s Continuous Monitoring program.

Claudio previously worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, where he served as the lead cloud security advisor supporting the DOD CIO. He was an original member of the DOD JAB technical review team for the first FedRAMP provisional ATOs in 2012. He continues to bring his cybersecurity and cloud expertise to FedRAMP as the program expands the number of CSPs authorized through the JAB.

Claudio Belloli

Cybersecurity

Tiffany Benton

Bain Capital

Tiffany Benton is currently a Senior Business Systems Analyst at Bain Capital. Since joining Bain Capital, she has managed multiple IT implementations and projects. Starting in 2016 her primary focus has been implementing Box globally across the firm. Throughout the implementation process, Tiffany has collaborated across multiple business units within the firm to define an enterprise strategy. The goal was to streamline processes and data migrations to Box with little disruption to day-to-day business operations. This approach has led to the development of a sustainable and secure folder structure and adoption across the enterprise.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, she worked with MasterCard and Visa implementing EMV technology for US banks and credit unions. Tiffany attended Richmond University in London and has received her PMP certification from the Project Management Institute.

Tiffany Benton

Bain Capital

Colin Black

CrowdStrike

As CrowdStrike's chief operating officer, Colin Black oversees IT, Information Security, Customer Success, and Facilities at CrowdStrike. He and his team work across the globe to build a growing, scalable, and customer focused company.

As a customer of CrowdStrike before he joined the company, Colin brings his passion for cyber security and perspective as a security purchaser and user to this important role. With more than 25 years of experience in the technology space, he has served in leadership positions with Kratos Defense and Security, Inc., Cymer, Inc., and Mindspeed Technologies. His background spans IT, global ops, manufacturing, facilities, and running a $500m service business.

Colin began his career as a quantum physicist and graduated from Glasgow University in Scotland with a bachelor of science in Electronics Engineering, specializing in Nano-Electronics.

Colin Black

CrowdStrike

Chris Blakeley

NASA

Chris Blakeley is a NASA project manager at the Kennedy Space Center in the software engineering division. Chris joined NASA in 2003 to help redesign the financial systems at Johnson Space Center in Houston before making the transition to KSC in their apps development division. Throughout his time at NASA, Chris has helped to manage program administration for science, information management, and budget formulation and execution.

Most recently, Chris has been tasked to implement an Enterprise File Sync and Share solution for NASA, which will allow the secure storage of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) data.

Mr. Blakeley holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Miami.

Chris Blakeley

NASA

Jonathan Bonney

Charter Spectrum Reach

I’ve worked in Dallas, within the cable industry for the past 17 years, in roles from the call-center environment to I.T. I am currently responsible for searching out and implementing new solutions to fulfill our needs around back-office and Sales facing software solutions.

Jonathan Bonney

Charter Spectrum Reach

Georg Borges

Professor of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International Business Law and Legal Theory, Saarland University

Georg Borges is a Professor of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International Business Law and Legal Theory and the managing director of the Institute for Legal Informatics at the Saarland University.

Georg Borges studied law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, the University of Geneva and the University of Bonn as well as economics at the Fernuniversität Hagen. During his studies, he worked for a Tax Law Firm and achieved the status of a tax law assistant. After his graduation, Georg Borges was employed in a law firm and as a researcher at the University of Cologne before he was promoted to professor in 2004. From 2004 to 2014, he was Professor of Law at Ruhr-University Bochum. Beside this, he was also a Judge at the State Court of Appeals, Hamm Circuit.

As an expert on Business Law with a focus on IT Law, Prof. Borges authored several statements on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Interior Affairs and the German Federal Office for Information Security. He lead the pilot-project “data protection certification of cloud services” of the German Ministry of Economics and Energy and is co-editor of a handbook on cloud computing.

His current research is related to autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, German and European data protection law, internet of things and cloud computing.

Georg Borges

Saarland University

Gildas Bouteiller

Lagardère Sports & Entertainment

Gildas Bouteiller serves as chief information officer (CIO) of Lagardère Sports & Entertainment. He has over 15 years ‘experience in the field of Information Technology and has a diverse background in media, retail, B2B and manufacturing.

At Lagardère Sports and Entertainment he oversees the Information Technology Department and sets IT roadmap priorities and delivery plans. He set up a global IT organization taking in charge all IT related investments of business units. The Global IT team harmonized all infrastructure and data services across worldwide offices by implementing appropriate technology standards.

Gildas honed his skills in information systems optimization and digital transformation, first at Lyreco (B2B distribution), followed by 5 years at Altadis / Imperial Tobacco (Manufacturing and Distribution) and 5 additional years at Casino Group (Retail).

At Casino, he contributed to the transformation of a traditional retail player into a “precision retailing” pioneer, notably through minimizing the operating costs of legacy systems and adapting the Business–IT interface in various rationalization projects.

Gildas holds a MSc in Economics.

Gildas Bouteiller

Lagardère Sports & Entertainment

Alwin P. Brunner

Heidrick & Struggles

Alwin P. Brunner joined Heidrick & Struggles in 2009 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Having worked and lived in the Netherlands, France and the USA, he brings more than 17 years of broad

business and IT experience in the professional services industry. Based in the Chicago office, he is a member of Heidrick’s senior leadership team. To support the growth and diversification strategy of the firm, Alwin has transformed the IT service and organization using a new sourcing strategy, including the adoption of strategic partners, services and products.

Previously, Alwin held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Adecco Group North America, where he was the executive sponsor for new client-facing products and services such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Vendor Management Systems. Alwin also led the efforts to enable organic and inorganic growth by process improvements and consolidation of distributed functions and activities from five major Adecco-owned brands into a shared service organization for the group, allowing significant resources to be redeployed for further business growth.

As a member of the senior leadership team for both the Americas and the worldwide Adecco Group, Alwin served as a member of the firm’s global strategy council and led their worldwide internet center of excellence.

Previously, Alwin held the Chief Technology Officer position for the Adecco Group, based in France. In that role, Alwin led the adoption and implementation of Adecco’s first global sales methodology and processes. With responsibility for worldwide IT service delivery, Alwin implemented Adecco’s first global service function, achieving strategic alignment of global IT resources. In addition, Alwin led significant global deployment efforts around the world for internet, front-office systems and financials.

Alwin holds a bachelors degree in business administration from the Polytechnic University of Rotterdam.

Alwin P. Brunner

Heidrick & Struggles

Robert Burkhart

Nationwide Insurance

Chief Evangelist of New Technology Innovation within the organization, looked upon as an industry recognized Subject Matter Expert for Mobile and Collaboration technologies. Responsible for reimagining the way the organization works by building and implementing technologies that drive productivity gains, decrease costs and increase sales. Extremely forward thinking and often described as a visionary with the unique ability to develop solutions and change organizational culture.

Accountable for the implementation of Mobile and Collaboration Technology solutions from the identification, analysis and development to the transition to version 2.0 and beyond. His work has been recognized by Business Week, Baseline, Financial Times, Smart Money, Fortune, LA Times, Gartner, Forrester, Wall Street Journal.

Robert Burkhart

Nationwide Insurance

Brett Conlon

Brett Conlon is Chief Information Security Officer for Edelman Financial, one of the largest independent financial planning firms in the nation. Brett is responsible for establishing and driving the strategy for Edelman Financial Services information security, business resiliency and emerging technologies. His department is directly responsible for protecting Edelman Financial Services organization and customers from both internal and external threats.

Prior to joining Edelman Financial, Brett had an extensive career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Brett's responsibilities included overseeing all operational technology programs and investments at the FBI. The technologies Brett oversaw the components responsible for infrastructure, malicious code analysis, computer exploitation tools, reverse - engineering, digital intelligence, cloud, advanced analytics and visualization to all FBI investigative and intelligence gathering programs. These technologies focused on the U.S. government's efforts to combat cyberterrorism, hostile intelligence activities, and crime.

Brett Conlon

Edelman Financial

Candace Davis

Director of Content, Walmart U.S. Operations Academies

Candace is a trailblazer in marrying adult learning and corporate training. Currently Candace is the Director of Content for the Walmart U.S. Operations Academies where she is responsible for designing training programs and content for 250,000 Walmart associates each year. The training created for Academies is instructor led, technology focused, salesfloor driven, and real world centered. Prior to her work in Operations, Candace held roles in Walmart International and Walmart U.S. Human Resources.

Candace also has considerable experience as an instructor in both private and public school education including the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and as a consultant in supplier training.

Candace Davis

Walmart

Todd Dekkinga

Versartis, Inc.

Todd has more than 15 years of experience in Biotech/Pharma IT leadership and has had hands-on roles in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise architectures from the ground up for companies such as Genomic Health, Crescendo Biosciences, and currently Versartis, fully modernizing their IT departments while working within aggressive and high-growth environments.

He is a recognized expert in the Life Sciences/Biotech industries in regards to secure file transfer for Protected Health Information (PHI) and maintaining strict compliance with HIPAA, 21CFR part 11 and SOX, among other regulations.

Todd holds a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Western Michigan University. He is ITIL certified, as well as a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Engineer (MCSE).

Todd Dekkinga

Versartis, Inc.

Spruce Feinstein

RevUnit

Spruce got his start in the tech world at a local startup called Moxy Ox, where he built web sites for a wide range of clients. He has worked in a number of fields since then, ranging from transportation and logistics, to aviation. Currently he's a software architect at RevUnit. He enjoys working with teams to design and build software that solves complex problems. Currently he's working with JavaScript but enjoys all languages, especially learning new ones. Spruce is also passionate about DevOps, and spends time working with the latest and greatest developer tools and infrastructure.

When he's not building software, Spruce like to spend time outdoors and is currently reading Clean Code by Robert Cecil Martin (which you should also read!)

Spruce Feinstein

RevUnit

Josh Feliciano

S&P Global

Josh Feliciano has over 20 years of experience in launching technology products and services and has worked in over 15 different countries helping companies align technology with their business needs to improve results. As the Infrastructure Enterprise Architect for the Workplace Services group at S&P Global, Josh Feliciano helps to set end user computing strategy and deliver critical digital services to over 20,000 S&P Global employees with a focus on superior user experiences, enabling collaboration and maximizing productivity.

Josh joined S&P Global in 2006 as a Mobility Engineer and has held various roles within Messaging Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and the Enterprise Architecture teams. In his current role, Josh serves as the product manager for various collaboration and mobility technologies at S&P Global including Box, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business and Intune. Josh has served as the lead architect on several key cloud and transformation initiatives including the Office 365 Implementation that successfully migrated S&P Global to Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, Skype for Business Online and Intune. Josh is also the technology evangelist and program manager for S&P Global’s enterprise-wide Box implementation that successfully consolidated several different cloud file sharing services and legacy content management systems into Box.

Josh holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with a minor in Economics, from Fordham University and holds a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute. Josh is also a member of the Mobility Financial User’s Group.

Josh Feliciano

S&P Global

Erin Baudo Felter

Okta for Good

Erin Baudo Felter is the founding Executive Director of Okta for Good, Okta’s corporate social impact initiative. She is charged with leveraging Okta’s most important assets – its people, product and company resources – to accelerate the impact of mission-driven organizations around the world. Erin has worked at the intersection of business and social impact for over a decade and has held various corporate social impact roles at Zynga, Yahoo and Warner Bros.

Erin holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is personally passionate about equity in education and serves on the advisory board for Citizen Schools California. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two young children.

Erin Baudo Felter

Okta for Good

Scott Finder

First Republic Bank

Mr. Finder is a Digital executive with a depth of experience in Consumer and Corporate Private Banking, Wealth and Asset Management within the United States as well as Europe and Asia. His areas of focus span Digital Leadership, Sales & Marketing and Technology.

He joined First Republic Bank in 2012 as Senior Vice President, Head of Digital Channels. He leads client facing Digital initiatives, and oversees online and mobile banking, across the Consumer and Corporate Private Bank as well as Wealth Management. He also previously developed Social Media & Enterprise Collaboration functions from the ground up.

Prior to joining First Republic Bank, Mr. Finder spent approximately six years at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. He held the position of Managing Director, Global Head of eBusiness, including the iShares ETF business. He played active roles in the merger integrations of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Barclays Global Investors / iShares. Before BlackRock, Mr. Finder was with Merrill Lynch in roles that included leadership of digital and marketing teams, product management and he also did a stint as a Regional Finance Manager, where he structured commercial lending transactions, initiated cash management services and middle market divestitures.

Mr. Finder earned a BA degree with a finance major from Ohio University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business, The University of Pennsylvania. He is FINRA registered Series 7 and 24.

Scott Finder

First Republic Bank

Bob Flynn

Indiana University

Bob Flynn helps Indiana University explore, understand, and implement cloud-based web-scale technologies and innovations in support of the university's academic and research missions. His project portfolio includes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Adobe and Box. Flynn works with colleagues across the country to guide cloud technology adoption in higher education, contributing to the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research Cloud working group and serving on multiple vendor advisory boards, including the Box Product Advisory Board and the Internet2 NET+ Box (higher education) Advisory Board.

Flynn received a B.A. in Russian from the University of Arizona and completed a MA and the PhD coursework in Slavic languages at Indiana University. He taught Russian at the University of Kentucky and Ohio University before he and his wife moved to Hungary to teach English. During their three years in Hungary they infected the minds of the Hungarian youth with Ultimate Frisbee and are credited with starting the sport in that country. The Hungarian Ultimate Frisbee Association annually awards the Bob Flynn Award for contributions to the sport off the field. Somewhere along the line Flynn transitioned from human languages to computer languages and look where that has landed him.

Bob Flynn

Indiana University

Greg Greiner

Uber

Greg Greiner is the Head of Product for Uber for Business and leads product development across Uber's corporate offerings. With over 65,000 corporate customers, Uber for Business works to empower organizations to perfect the way they move the people and things that matter to them.

Prior to joining Uber, Greg co-founded Bob's Watches an online marketplace for luxury watches featured in the Inc. 500. He holds a B.S. from Stanford University in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering.

Greg Greiner

Uber

Steve Grewal

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Steve Grewal currently serves as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). As DCIO, he is responsible for assisting the GSA Chief Information Officer in the leadership of all GSA information technology (IT) responsibilities and authorities. He also serves as an advisor to the CIO, Administrator, Deputy Administrator and other senior GSA officials on all technology issues. Previously, he served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Prior to his appointment as Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer at ED, he served as the Chief Information Security Officer. As CISO, he was responsible for implementing the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements including developing, maintaining, and continually enhancing a nationwide cybersecurity program. He has held other senior leadership and technical posts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Before joining federal service, he spent several years in private industry including Ernst & Young, Microstrategy, as well as a series of startups. Steve has an extensive background in strategic planning, technology innovation, program management, enterprise architecture, governance and cybersecurity in the public and private sectors.

Steve Grewal

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Tim Halpin

AT&T

Tim Halpin

AT&T

William Herald

Division of the State Architect

William (Will) Herald is an Architect who is the initial Mobile First and Cloud Services developer for the State of California Department of General Services (DGS) and the Division of the State Architect (DSA). In 2011 the acting State Architect tasked Will with developing a mobile tablet solution for the review of all the public-school construction under DSA’s certification authority in response to a 2010 audit by the Bureau of State Audits (BSA). The BSA had determined that the certification rate was only 65% for all approved DSA projects and the program was determined to be “neither thorough or effective”. Will developed a mobile first cloud enabled reporting system using box (DSAbox) , mobile forms leveraging meta data and the iPad for all four DSA regional offices. The program has expanded to include approximately 30,000 external stake holders submitting required documents to DSA with an audit trail and metrics. The current certification rate has improved to 95%. Will was awarded the DGS Values Award in 2015 for the development of DSAbox.

In 2015, Will was asked to be Co-Chair for the DGS Emergency Capabilities team for Essential Service Function ESF-7 (Resources) and ESF-3 (Engineering and Construction). All Essential Function agency for the State of California, the California National Guard, FEMA, and Volunteer stakeholders were invited to the DGS Cloud to collaborate on the development of State of California Unified Logistic Plan for Emergency Response. The platform is being expanded by the Office of Emergency Services to collaborate on state wide emergency response scenarios.

Will is currently working on Electronic Plan Review in DSAbox for DSA and developing blockchain, Internet of Things (IOT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for use in Government.

William Herald

Division of the State Architect

Ian Hameroff

Nintex

Ian Hameroff is Senior Director of Product Marketing at Nintex, where he is responsible for marketing the company’s industry-leading suite of Workflow and Content Automation (WCA) solutions worldwide. With 18 years of technology experience, Ian previously held product marketing and product management roles at Microsoft, specifically within its information security, infrastructure, and cloud productivity businesses, as well as at CA Technologies.

Ian Hameroff

Nintex

Brian Higgins

Pfizer

Brian Higgins

Pfizer

Todd M. Hinnen

Partner, Perkins Coie

Todd Hinnen is a partner with the firm's Privacy & Security practice. He counsels clients and represents them in litigation regarding privacy, data security, compliance with law enforcement and national security issues. He works closely with the Department of Justice and the Intelligence Community.

Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Todd was the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). While in office, he led an office of 320 attorneys responsible for overseeing the DOJ’s nationwide counterterrorism, counterespionage and export control programs. In that capacity, he represented the United States before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court and on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS); supervised oversight and compliance programs at law enforcement, intelligence and national security agencies; and testified before Congress on numerous occasions in both open and classified hearings.

Todd also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division in charge of the Division’s Internet and cybersecurity, appellate, terrorist financing, and international outreach and capacity building practices. He previously served as Chief Counsel to then-Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Todd counseled Senator Biden and assisted him in drafting legislation relating to the Internet, intellectual property, criminal justice policy and national security.

Todd also served under President George W. Bush as a Director in the National Security Council’s Directorate for Combating Terrorism. He began his career in government as a prosecutor in DOJ’s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS). During his tenure with CCIPS, Todd was the Rapporteur of the G8 Subgroup on High-TechCrime and the head of the U.S. delegation to the Organization of American States Cybercrime Experts Group.

Todd M. Hinnen

Perkins Coie

Shawn Ivey

Accenture

Shawn Ivey leads Innovation & Emerging Technology for the Cloud First Applications practice at Accenture. In this role, Shawn is responsible for identifying and incubating new, high growth pure-play Cloud practice areas for the firm. Shawn brings over 20 years’ experience as a technologist and entrepreneur, including over a decade of SaaS experience building and deploying large scale integrated solutions to clients across many vertical markets.

Shawn Ivey

Accenture

Cheng Keat

Broadcom Limited

Cheng Keat (CK) manages IT Technology and Collaboration Tower for Broadcom Limited. Broadcom Limited is a diversified global semiconductor leader built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence. With roots based in the rich technical heritage of technology powerhouses AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect our world. Cheng Keat leads a global team and responsible for Broadcom Collaboration Services, Content Management, Enterprise Search, Communications and Mobile Services.

Cheng Keat

Broadcom Limited

Andrea Kirkpatrick

Facebook

Andrea is the Director and Associate General Counsel of Security at Facebook where she is responsible for supporting the, Global Law Enforcement Response team and counseling the company on issues related to law enforcement response, government surveillance, user and child safety, data security, enforcement actions and user data-related litigation. Andrea is a past President, Vice President and Board member of the Technology Coalition – an industry trade association focused on eradication of child exploitation on the Internet.

Prior to joining Facebook, Andrea spent 4 years working on the Legal team at Yahoo where she supported and managed the International Law Enforcement Response team, supported the Global Customer Care Organization and was responsible for counseling on issues related to user and child safety, data security and global content moderation.

Before moving in-house, Andrea spent 7 years in private practice as a litigator with the most recent 5 years spent as an associate in the Intellectual Property and Technology group at Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher, and Flom LLP.

Andrea Kirkpatrick

Facebook

Alan Lepofsky

Leveraging more than two decades of experience in the software industry, Alan helps organizations create more engaged, informed and effective employees. Alan’s primary research area The Future of Work, focuses on: integrating collaboration into business processes, project/task management strategies, and how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the business workflows people use to do their jobs. Alan has an Engineering degree from the University of Toronto, and worked at IBM and Socialtext before joining Constellation. As an industry analyst Alan helps guide the product roadmaps of some of the world’s largest software vendors, has presented at conferences around the world, and provides advisory services and workshops to organizations of all sizes.

Alan Lepofsky

Constellation

Jeff Letendre

MassMutual

Jeff Letendre is a System Consultant in the MassMutual Technology & Administration organization, where he supports corporate technology initiatives and emerging technology. He and his team are responsible for the development and rollout of technologies for MassMutual employees and advisors.

Jeff joined MassMutual in 2000. For the past three years, he has driven adoption of Box across MassMutual, helping to grow the company’s user base to more than 25k accounts, and identifying new use cases to improve workflow & collaboration across MassMutual. Currently, Jeff is focused on implementing Box Governance to incorporate compliance & content management controls to Box.

During his 20-year IT career, Jeff has held a variety of technology positions. Jeff is a member of the Box Product Advisory Board, where he provides feedback & ideas to help shape Box features & functionality.

Jeff Letendre

MassMutual

Dylan Lloyd

Sitecore

Dylan Lloyd is responsible for leading the Global Desktop and Infrastructure Team for Sitecore. Dylan started his IT career in high school, working for a computer store where he sold and repaired laptop and desktop systems. In college, he supported the computer systems for multiple video editing labs, as well as the entire infrastructure for the Chico State University Housing Department.

After graduating from Chico State University, Dylan went to work for Higgins Purchasing Group (HPG). He oversaw significant growth and change in HPG’s IT Department, including the overall growth of the IT Department (from two to eight employees) to meet the demands of the growing company, as well as implementing the correct infrastructure for HPG as it grew from aUS base of operations to a global company.

After leaving HPG in 2007, Dylan founded two companies—a web hosting company, hosting over 40 companies’ web-based systems and websites, and an IT consulting company that helped businesses of all sizes make sure they could continue their company missions without having to worry about IT solutions and security.

In May 2012, Dylan became the North American IT Manager for Sitecore. In this role he helped implement Palo Alto Networks and Global Protect throughout the company and streamlined IT policies for North America. In September 2016, he was promoted to Director, Global IT Infrastructure for Sitecore and he now oversees the Global Desktop and Infrastructure team. In this new role, Dylan has ensured that the IT Department has met the needs of the rapidly growing company. Dylan believes Sitecore is making great strides as a market leader with their Sitecore Experience Platform.

Dylan Lloyd

Sitecore

Syan Maitland

S&P Global

Syan Maitland has over 20 years of experience working in large enterprises and participating in a broad range of enterprise wide IT initiatives.

Her current role at S&P Global is Director of Information Protection within the Workplace Services group. Her responsibilities include delivering critical services to over 20,000 S&P global employees with a focus on ensuring solutions align to security best practices as well as superior end user experience.

Syan joined S&P in 2007 as a Server Engineer and has held several roles within S&P including several engineering and architecture roles. Syan has served as enterprise architect delivering core services such as Active Directory, Compute and Infrastructure services including Virtualization as well as key initiatives tied to Security and Compliance. She was the lead architect for delivering S&P Global enterprise wide Box implementation that has successfully consolidated several cloud file sharing services and legacy content management systems into Box.

Syan holds a Bachelor of Computer Science with Honors from City University in the United Kingdom and holds a CISSP from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) and GPEN (Penetration Testing) certification from Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC).

Syan is an avid runner with several half and full marathons under her belt and enjoys tinkering and learning about all things tech.

Syan Maitland

S&P Global

Peter Marney

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Peter Marney is the SVP and Chief Product Technology Officer at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global provider of content and services to professionals, researchers, educators and students worldwide. He leads customer facing product development, content strategy and content management globally for Wiley. Peter is skilled at creating, articulating and gaining support at all levels of the organization for strategic change programs then executing these programs.

In addition, Peter leads the Wiley Publishing Platform strategic initiative, which will reinvent publishing from the author experience and peer review through to end product delivery. A key component is Smart Content, which is content that is granular, contextually discoverable and flexible for reassembly by Wiley and its customers. The Wiley Publishing Platform is key to Wiley’s transformation from a traditional publisher to global provider of knowledge based products and services.

Peter is also active relevant industry associations. He serves on the Advisory Board of WorkFusion, the board of directors of CrossRef, the board directors of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), as well as the Advisory Board of the Stevens Alliance for Innovation and Leadership. In 2011, Peter was selected by the U.S. Commodity Futures TradingCommission (CFTC) to serve on its Subcommittee on Data Standardization.

When not obsessing about content, Peter is passionate about photography and marathon running.

Peter Marney

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Miten Marvania

Miten is a founding member and Chief Operating Officer of Agio. In his current role, Miten oversees all off the Service Delivery Functions, Software Development, Compliance, and New Product Development. From 2010-2011 he actively built out Agio’s Operational Headquarters, located in Norman, OK, and has since led the design and implementation of two industry-leading, proprietary platforms. Miten also serves on Box.com’s SMB Customer Advisory Board (CAB) and has served on Salesforce.com's CIO Advisory Board, AccelOps’ Product Advisory Council, and both Intel Security’s Partner and Security Product Councils. Prior to Agio, he held various roles from Developer to Senior Project Manager and Associate Director at Sungard Data Services, SaiTech Inc, Alliant Technologies, and Point72, formerly SAC Capital Advisors. Miten received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University.

Miten Marvania

Agio

Emalie McGinnis

Emalie McGinnis is the Director of Technology & Data Services at San José Unified School District. Prior to becoming Director, she worked as a site principal, assistant principal, teacher on special assignment, and classroom teacher. Ms. McGinnis is deeply committed to urban education and developing early literacy skills in all students. In addition to her work within San José Unified School District, McGinnis has also served as an adjunct lecturer for Santa Clara University’s School of Education and Counseling Psychology and is an alumna Agency Fellow for the Strategic Data Project at Harvard University.

Emalie McGinnis

San José Unified School District

Mike Miller

Mike Miller is the Director of Strategic Alliances at KnowledgeLake, a Fujitsu company, where he is responsible for connecting KnowledgeLake to partners interested in the company’s industry-leading document capture and processing solutions. In his 10 years with KnowledgeLake, Mike has also held Systems Engineer and Product Management roles at KnowledgeLake. Prior to that, he was with EMC, focusing on document capture and content management with Captiva and Documentum, especially within Healthcare.

Mike Miller

KnowledgeLake

Alan Monier

Crooze Corporation

Alan Monier

Crooze Corporation

Chris Niggel

Chris is currently the Director of Security and Compliance at Okta, where he is responsible for corporate compliance, application assessment, and responding to customer security inquiries. Prior to Okta, Chris spent 6 years leading the adoption of Cloud Technologies at LinkedIn, helping them grow from 350 to over 6,800 employees. He started his career designing, developing, and delivering content management, system administration, and messaging solutions for customers such as Nestle, Cisco, AMD, Telus, and the US Department of Defense. He is also an active member of the Northern California ski community, where he volunteers with the Tahoe Backcountry Ski Patrol performing search & rescue, and teaching ski mountaineering & outdoor survival.

Chris Niggel

Okta

Dan O'Leary

Workplace by Facebook is a communication platform that enables organizations to bring people and information together to get work done.

Dan was on the founding team for Workplace where he led some of the earliest Workplace deployments and worked to build out the service partner program. Dan now leads the Workplace Service Partner program in North America where he is passionate about building communities and bringing the world closer together at work.

Dan joined Facebook from Box, where he served as Principal Solutions Architect and worked with accounts like Ely Lilly and GE. Dan helped lead the professional services team through the IPO, working on programs like Box Shuttle, Information Governance and the Box Platform. Prior to Box, Dan was a Box MVP and built integrations with document automation and electronic forms products that served enterprise clients. Dan serves as an advisor to companies like MxHero, and he attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where he studied international relations.

Dan O'Leary

Workplace by Facebook

Nada O'Neal

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

Nada O'Neal is currently the VP of IT at the ASPCA. She has served various technical roles since joining the organization in 2013, and was the primary driver for the organization's Box implementation. During her tenure, she's emphasized designing technical solutions that enhance organizational strategy and user productivity. Previously, she worked as a Linux systems administrator. She received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.

Nada O'Neal

ASPCA

Khuloud Odeh

Khuloud Odeh is vice president for information technology (IT) and chief information officer (CIO) at the Urban Institute, where she leads the strategic planning and implementation of research, operations, and communications technology. Odeh is not your typical technologist: she brings a unique blend of education, IT organization leadership, change management experience, and understanding of global and local sustainability challenges. Over the course of her career, she has helped various organizations develop and implement strategic IT roadmaps that align with and support business process improvements, innovation, and organizational growth.

Before joining Urban, Odeh was IT director for the Grameen Foundation, a global poverty-fighting organization. She served previously as the CIO of CHF International (now Global Communities) and as senior IT advisor to Jhpeigo’s Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program.

Odeh has a BS in computer science from the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan; an MS in computer science from American University; and a PhD in information technology from George Mason University, where her research focused on the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of an IT organization’s practices. She also has a master’s degree in strategic leadership toward sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, where her research focused on the enabling role of IT and broadband connectivity in sustainable urban development.

Khuloud Odeh

Urban Institute

Joe Payne

RevUnit

Joe Payne is VP of Design at RevUnit. With a background in print design, brand strategy, business operations, and entrepreneurship, he is responsible for co-leading RevUnit’s design organization in all aspects of UX, research, UI, visual design, and brand. Joe is focused on leveraging his passion for design and people to develop a world-class team of designers with a mission to help companies across the globe #WorkBetter.

Joe Payne

RevUnit

Charles Race

Charles Race

Okta

Joe Raio

Joe Raio is a Senior Technical Evangelist in Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) group where he helps educate developers on the latest Microsoft Azure technologies. Based in Miami, Florida Joe is an active member of the development community often speaking at local user groups and code camps. Joe has spoken internationally as well at such conference as Code Europe and Functions World. While at Microsoft he has received many honors including Share Fighter Champion and Americas Gold Club.

Joe Raio

Microsoft

Shiva Rajaraman

WeWork

Shiva Rajaraman serves as Chief Product Officer for WeWork where he is responsible for creating software and services to help millions of members make a life not just a living. Prior to joining WeWork he held various leadership roles at some of the most beloved brands in technology including Spotify where he ushered in an era of personalization and YouTube where he's most proud of helping underserved creators fulfill their dreams. Most recently he managed product marketing for Apple media services.

Shiva Rajaraman

WeWork

Brian Roddy

Brian Roddy runs the Cloud Security business at Cisco. Brian has more than 20 years of experience in helping build great engineering and operations teams. Brian was the EVP of Engineering of OpenDNS and came to Cisco via its acquisition. Brian previously led the engineering team at Jive Software, a leading SaaS collaboration company. While at Jive, Brian scaled the company through massive growth in customers and usage as well as through a successful IPO. Brian also was a founder of Reactivity, a web services security company that was acquired by Cisco in 2007. While at Cisco previously, Brian took over the development of the Application Delivery Business Unit’s suite of products and appliances. Brian holds a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Brian Roddy

Cisco

Richard Salgado

Google

Richard Salgado

Google

Ryan Sanders

Year Up

Ryan Sanders joined Year Up in 2015 as an Instructor in Quality Assurance, before moving on to instructing Computer Network Systems, and then Front-End Web Design. In 2016, he joined the organizations's National IT Infrastructure team as a Senior Technical Support Analyst, providing support to over eight-hundred staff at over twenty-plus sites across the country. Ryan also became a Project Manager of the Box implementation project and was largely responsible for driving the adoption and migration of the organization onto the Box platform.

Ryan is passionate about equal and equitable awareness for urban youth, and in closing the opportunity divide. Ryan studied at Nottingham Trent University, England, in Information Communication Technology, and received his degree in Digital Forensics and Information Security.

Ryan Sanders

Year Up

Geno Scaletta

Heidrick & Struggles International

Geno Scaletta is currently a Network Administrator at Heidrick & Struggles International. In the past Geno has worked in many IT roles at companies like Restaurant.com, The Marketing Store Worldwide, and Northwestern Business College.

Geno most recently has been administering the implementation of Box at Heidrick & Struggles as they transition from traditional File shares to storing their content on Box. He has been responsible for migrating over 50 Heidrick Offices to Box along with assisting in the training, coming up with the folder structure, and migration strategy.

Geno Scaletta

Heidrick & Struggles International

Cory Scott

LinkedIn

Cory Scott is the Chief Information Security Officer at LinkedIn. He is responsible for production and corporate information security, including assessment, monitoring, incident response and assurance activities. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Scott was at Matasano Security, where he led the consulting teams based in Chicago and Mountain View. He has also held technical positions at @stake, Symantec and ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland. Scott has presented at Black Hat, USENIX, OWASP and SANS.

Cory Scott

LinkedIn

Steve Selzer

Steve Selzer is a designer, manager, and creative leader at Airbnb.

Over the last decade, he has led design for a broad range of companies — from startups to Fortune 500 companies spanning education, finance, entertainment, consumer products, transportation, communications, and social enterprise.

Today, Steve leads design for Airbnb's Business Travel team, which is focused on transforming the experience people have when they travel for work.

Prior to Airbnb, Steve was a Creative Director at global innovation firm Frog Design. He is passionate about human-centered design and focused on building products that responsibly advance the human experience.

Steve Selzer

Airbnb

Stijn Stabel

As head of Strategy and Innovation and CTO Stijn is continually working with Alcopa’s top management and investors to provide with a critical perspective and guidance on IT strategy, IT investments, innovation and the digitalization of the industry.

Stijn is ultimately responsible for defining and driving the architecture, design and implementation of a diverse set of applications, processes and infrastructure including driving strategies around mobility and BI, CRM, ERP, Cloud, Landscape rationalization, E-commerce and big data. In this role he has been in the driver seat on a number of innovative projects augmenting user experience and using cutting edge techniques using sensoring and various other IOT functionalities far before the markets were picking up on this technology. Today he continues to work on co-innovation projects with companies like SAP and Microsoft to adapt new technologies in his application stack in ways that are unparalleled, this to ensure he continues to be a leader in its field.

Stijn is a frequent panel member and speaker in seminars on Architecture, Innovation and Strategy alignment but however still finds to time to share quality moments with his family on a farm he lives on as well as to train to compete in Ironman (triathlon) races around the world. In 2015 his race results even qualified him for the epic world championship full distance Ironman on the Big Island of Hawaii. By competing in these endurance events he decided he could turn his results into something more than a finisher trophy and truly race for those who can’t, which he is doing now by raising money for charity organizations supporting research for Parkinson disease.

Stijn Stabel

Alcopa

Rachel Beard Stewart

Rachael is Director of Business Relationship Management (BRM) in IT at the IRC where she oversees a global team responsible for aligning IT strategy and priorities with business needs. In this role, she also leads the teams that delivering IT training and communications, application support, and IT quality assurance. Rachael has been with the IRC for 8+ years, holding various roles including project manager, collaboration systems manager, and global user services director.

Prior to the IRC, Rachael's focus was in NYC K-12 education where founded and ran a small education nonprofit as well as served on the founding committee and board for two NYC charter schools. Her career in nonprofits and education began at Teach For America. Rachael studied neuroscience and painting at Skidmore College where she received her degree in Psychology and Art.

Rachel Beard Stewart

International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Matt Stofka

Kennedy Wilson

Matt Stofka is the Director of Records and Information Management for Kennedy Wilson, a global real estate investment company headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

A Certified Records Manager (CRM), Matt has more than 25 years of experience as an information management practitioner for legal and real estate firms for which he has implemented systems and best practices for managing the lifecycle and governance of electronic and physical information.

Matt has been leading Kennedy Wilson's implementation and administration of Box as its primary content management platform as the company focuses on migrating content from legacy network drives and empowering its users to work more collaboratively.

Matt is a member of the Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) and the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of ARMA International.

Matt Stofka

Kennedy Wilson

Inhi Cho Suh

IBM Collaboration Solutions & Watson Work

Inhi Cho Suh is currently the General Manager of IBM Collaboration Solutions and Watson Work. Inhi is responsible for driving a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of SaaS and premise based email,social, and communications software and infusing cognitive and analytics capabilities in the products.

Previously, Inhi was head of IBM Analytics Strategy & Business Development responsible for $18B+ Revenue and IBM’s most strategic growth imperative. The portfolio includes a range of software, services, and solutions spanning big data analytics to cognitive, internet of things, and social content collaboration. Inhi was responsible for the portfolio strategy, revenue growth, capital investment, and M&A globally. She led the recent strategic partnerships with Twitter, Box and acquisition of The Weather Company.

Inhi chairs IBM’s Global Women Diversity Initiative. She was featured as one of the top IBM rockstars by BusinessInsider News in 2015. She is a TEDTalk speaker and shared a vision of transforming health care with advanced analytics in 2014. She was named one of the top 10 most influential women in Big Data Tech for 2013 & 2014. Inhi was featured on the cover of Working Mother Magazine as one of the youngest VP’s at IBM in 2009. Inhi received a Bachelor of Science in Biology, History and Women’s Studies from Duke University and a Juris Doctorate from North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Inhi Cho Suh

IBM

Ravindra Sunku

Stitch Fix

Ravindra Sunku

Stitch Fix

Brian Tebin

Corning, Inc.

Brian Tebin

Corning, Inc.

Jim Thie

Year Up

Jim Thie has worked in the technology field for three decades building and growing both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Prior to joining Year Up, Jim was Chief Information Officer for three other nonprofits including the American Lung Association and Habitat for Humanity International – a top 10 international non-profit with $1.1 billion in revenue. At both organizations, Jim led major technology innovations including those focused on constituent experience management.

Before joining Habitat, Jim was Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Ultimate Software – a top provider in mid-marker payroll. Jim also held positions at Encore Development, an e-business and systems integration company, and Computer Associates, an international advanced technology company. Finally, Jim was a senior executive at one of the nation’s leading financial institutions. In this capacity, he served as Senior Vice President of technology and operations.

Jim earned his MBA from Baldwin-Wallace College and BS in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University.

Prior to Schwab, Rahul was at Intuit as Head of Global channel marketing analytics and optimization. He led analytics efforts to drive new user acquisition, x-sell/upsell and multi-channel user experiences across Intuit’s Small Business Group. In this role, Rahul oversaw all aspects of analytics, customer experience optimization and data strategy including digital analytics, offline/online marketing spend optimization, personalization, media mix modeling, and multi-touch attribution. Before Intuit, Rahul held progressive leadership positions at eBay, PayPal and Capital One overseeing various aspects of marketing, product and customer optimization.

Rahul Todkar

Schwab

Ashish Toshniwal

Y Media Labs

Ashish Toshniwal is CEO and co-founder of Y Media Labs, an investor in numerous mobile-first technology companies, and a frequent speaker on the future of mobile, emerging technologies and business transformation in the digital age.

At a time when mobile was just taking off, Ashish and co-founder Sumit Mehra moved to Silicon Valley to start Y Media Labs. Carving a niche as an agency that could deliver both excellent design as well as the creative technology to successfully execute transformational experiences, they caught the attention of Steve Jobs and several top-tier companies around the world.

Y Media Labs has since grown to a 250+ size global agency and has helped dozens of Fortune 500 companies successfully transition to the digital landscape.

Recently partnered with MDC, Y Media Labs was selected by Forbes as one of the most promising companies in 2015. Other recent acknowledgements include Most Forward Thinking Company from Entrepreneur and Top 10 Fastest Growing Company in Silicon Valley by Business Journal.

Ashish's greatest strength as a CEO is building strong teams and empowering them to succeed. He truly enjoys mentoring employees and other bright minds in the mobile space and is always looking to connect with other in the community.

Ashish Toshniwal

Y Media Labs

Archana Vemulapalli

District's Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Chief Technology Officer Archana Vemulapalli was nominated to serve as the District's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) by Mayor Muriel Bowser on January 12, 2016 and confirmed by DC Council on April 5, 2016.

During her first year as Chief Technology Officer, Ms. Vemulapalli has positioned the Washington, DC to become a world class technology hub. DC has quickly moved up the ranks in smart city technology, data utilization and digital inclusion. This has led to DC becoming the first CISCO-designated “Lighthouse City” in the United States, an honor granted to cities with exemplary commitments to smart city technology.

Ms. Vemulapalli completed the pilot project of the Pennsylvania Avenue 2040 (PA2040). This project enhances visitor experience all the while providing resulting real-time data to improve District operations with reduced costs through publicly accessible DC-Net Wi-Fi and remotely managed, sensor-based LED streetlights.

Ms. Vemulapalli’s dedication to bridge the digital divide is fueled by a passion to ensure that IT access is not a privilege but a right for every District resident. As co-chair and creator of the Council of Global City CIOs (CGCC), Ms. Vemulapalli’s role is to centralize city tech leaders from cities across the globe to share data and harness technology to transform cities.

Prior to her role as Washington, DC CTO, Ms. Vemulapalli was Chief Technology Officer for Pristine Environments where she was responsible for developing the company’s IT strategy and transforming the company’s technology solutions offering in the market. Her industry contributions also include technology strategy consulting at global consulting firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte Consulting, and Lucent Technologies.

Ms. Vemulapalli earned a master’s degree in Leadership from McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Madras.

Ms. Vemulapalli was the recipient of Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business 2015 award. Her credits also include participation in the Leadership Greater Washington Class of 2015 and Women in Technology’s Leadership Foundry Class of 2014. Ms. Vemulapalli serves on the Trustees Council of Penn Women at the University of Pennsylvania.

She resides in Washington, DC with her husband, son, and a new family puppy.

Archana Vemulapalli

District's Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Steven Waldrop

Cognizant Business Consulting

Steven is a business transformation leader, passionate about the influence digital technologies have on engagement models between key participants in the Insurance value chain. Applying his 20 years of experience, Steven advises companies on the development and execution of transformation programs that enhance business capabilities and processes, while leveraging the latest technologies across digital and core applications. He has worked with carriers across Property and Casualty (P&C), Life and Annuity (L&A) and Group.

Steven Waldrop

Cognizant Business Consulting

Ryan Welch

Ryan Welch currently holds a bachelors and master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and recently earned a GIAC Information Security Fundamentals certification. After spending 5 years performing psychometrics at various hospitals in the Indianapolis area, Ryan began working at Eli Lilly and Company working on clinical trials. Ryan made a career change in 2010 and started supporting part of Lilly Research Laboratories as a content management expert within SharePoint. In 2015, Ryan helped form a team to design an enterprise-wide content management capability within Lilly’s Information Security organization. Ryan is currently a manager and strategist in the Protect Lilly Content Management Hub supporting all of Lilly’s business units, Elanco, & Manufacturing and Quality. In the past year, Ryan established a broader set of business controls in Lilly’s Box environment.

Ryan Welch

Eli Lilly and Company

Friedrich Wetschnig

Flex

Friedrich (Fritz) Wetschnig is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Flex, a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. With more than 200,000 professionals across 30 countries, the company provides innovative design, engineering, manufacturing, real-time supply chain insight and logistics services to companies of all sizes in various industries and end-markets.

Friedrich is responsible for delivering a corporate-wide information security program to protect company assets, intellectual property and confidential information. He leads a global team that promotes IT Security as a culture within the business operations and implements leading edge security solutions.

Friedrich Wetschnig

Flex

Shadrach White

cloudPWR

Shadrach White is the Chief Executive Officer and founder at cloudPWR. The company's flagship product AIRLIFT® is powering the future of Citizen to Government transactions. AIRLIFT increases productivity, compliance, the accuracy of information, the privacy of personal data, and end-user satisfaction by eliminating printing, mailing, scanning and faxing.

Shadrach White

cloudPWR

Bryce Williams

Eli Lilly and Company

Collaboration Capabilities Architect with over 18 years of IT experience in the healthcare industry. Currently responsible for driving the strategy and adoption of flexible collaboration capabilities (social collaboration, content management, cloud solutions, mobile) for the Eli Lilly and Company workforce...in addition to owning the implementation and integration of new capabilities that enable connected, interactive, mobile-friendly content & collaboration. Also known for coining the phrase "Working Out Loud" to describe a new mindset for how we get work done together.

Prior to taking on enterprise collaboration strategy as a focus, my primary work had been on the implementation of custom or purchased software to meet the needs of highly regulated aspects of the pharmaceutical business (new drug application submissions, submission tracking, submission authoring, patient safety monitoring and reporting).

Bryce Williams

Eli Lilly and Company

Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson is Vice President of Product at Doxly, where he is responsible for product strategy, design and planning. Doug has spent his career in product management building products for companies ranging from early stage to publically traded. Prior to Doxly, Doug served as Director of Product Management at ExactTarget, and later Salesforce where he focused on mobile technologies and marketing automation solutions.

Doug Wilson

Doxly

Jane Wiltshire

Pfizer

Jane Wiltshire is a Senior Director in Business Technology at Pfizer, a global pharmaceutical company grounded in the belief that all people deserve to live healthy lives with access to medicines which are safe, effective and affordable. Jane leads the corporation's Collaboration Center of Excellence (CCoE), focused on delivering a seamless collaboration experience, rooted in a digital sharing mindset, where people can work #bettertogether to progress business outcomes and power patient health.

With over 20 years of experience in Pharma and Information Technology, Jane has developed specialties in collaboration, content management, infrastructure and IT mergers and acquisitions, and infrastructure. During her tenure leading Mergers & Acquisitions IT, Jane and her team lead the technology elements of over $160 billion worth of Pfizer’s Business Development transactions.

Jane is also responsible for Pfizer’s Business Technology Rotational Program, committed to fostering early interest in STEM fields in local schools and the hiring of entry-level talent to ensure a pipeline of gifted technologists and future leaders in the organization. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from University of California, San Diego.

Jane Wiltshire

Pfizer

David Woodard

Vestas Americas

David Woodard

Vestas Americas

Lauren Woodman

Lauren Woodman joined NetHope as the Chief Executive Officer for NetHope in January, 2014. A passionate advocate for the power of technology to drive social change, she has spent 20 years in leadership roles in technology, policy, economic development and education in the public and private sectors.

Before NetHope, Lauren led government and education programs at Microsoft for more than a decade. These public-private partnerships spanned a variety of needs, including disaster response, economic development, language accessibility, and education. Under her leadership, Microsoft’s most significant education program, Partners in Learning, resulted in $500 million in direct investment so that more than 12 million teachers and 230 million students in 134 countries benefitted from more effective use of technology in teaching and learning.

She currently serves on the National Education Association Foundation Board of Directors and the World Affairs Council of Seattle Board of Directors.

Lauren Woodman

NetHope

Eleanor Renee Zaugg

Vice President of Enterprise IT Infrastructure & Development Services

Digital Transformation Leader. Advancing global bi-model technology to disrupt systems of engagement and systems of insights to drive competitive advantage. Servicing significant data and infrastructure for Aetna one of the world’s leading Healthcare companies with a $57 billion brand, 27 million members and 51,000 employees. Has a strong understanding of the relationships between technology and strategic business interests with an outcome based mindset proven to drive multimillion-dollar per annum savings while advancing market capabilities.